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Operation Cygnus war-gamed a new virus such as Covid-19 sweeping Britain in 2016 - but the hit to jobs and businesses was left out.
Foreign secretary Dominic Raab leads the daily Downing Street briefing. It comes as the total number of people who died of coronavirus reached at least 41,730, with full figures to be released later today.
Soumya Krishnakumar’s social enterprise, The Crisis Project, is helping key workers with messages of support written by volunteers to help spread kindness and positivity during the coronavirus pandemic.
Hair sample research reveals how stress of Covid-19 pandemic affects different people.
The coronavirus pandemic has “substantially” worsened people’s mental health, a new study suggests. HuffPost UK readers have shared how they're feeling.
The UK has hit the grim milestone of 40,000 deaths from coronavirus, one of the highest in the world. Despite warnings and being behind the likes of Italy and Spain when the virus struck, the UK’s authorities have overseen a catastrophic response to the coronavirus pandemic. Although 40,000 people have died and are confirmed with having had the virus, many more are thought to be attributable in the UK.
This pandemic has exposed the lack of competence and capacity within the institutions of the British state, John Spellar MP writes.
NHS England has launched its test and trace system, hoping for it to be the lynchpin of the next phase of being able to lift lockdown restrictions. The new system will ask those displaying symptoms of coronavirus to isolate with their families and to contact NHS tracers to find out who else may have been exposed as Britain grapples with having one of the worst death ratios in the world.
It is the first time Trump has played golf since declaring the coronavirus a national emergency.
Depression, anxiety and agoraphobia are among the mental health issues therapists are concerned about in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.